BOSTON (Massachusetts), April 3. /TASS/. Russia’s Evgenia Medvedeva has become the winner of the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston (USA). She scored 223.86 points after a short program and free skating (73.76 +150.10).

Ashley Wagner of the U.S. came second with 215.39 points and Russia’s Anna Pogorilaya - the third (213.69 points).

Medvedeva broke the world record in free skating scoring 150.10 points.

The previous record was established by South Korea’s Kim Yuna who scored 150.06 points at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada."I have not yet realized"

Medvedeva has said she showed her best performance at the World Figure Skating Championships in the United States.

"I think it will take some time for me to realize that I won the world championships, because I have not yet realized that I won the European championships," she has told TASS. "I think it will take me quite a while to realize this, especially considering the fact that I won it with a world record. At the moment I only understand that I did my best and presented my free skate to the best advantage."

Young Russian hockey phenom Andrei Svechnikov, born in 2000, moves to play hockey in the USA next season. Svechnikov is considered to be by far the best young talent in Russian hockey today.

Fucking sad, and a bad decision for him. North American junior leagues generally do a bad job of training young Russian hockey players. These Russian kids are leaving their country younger and younger. Now they are leaving at 15-17.

In the 1990's and 2000's Russia managed to keep their best hockey players in the country better than they do now.

In that case with Lance Armstrong cheating in the last 10 Tour De Frances... I guess all American athletes will get a similar ban? AHahaahahahahaa

_________________“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”

― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

All competitive endurance, strenght sportsmen use drugs to boost their performance. Fact. Meldonium wasn't banned before and when it was - it was too late to leave atlethes bodies so it was detected. And that ban was targetted at Russia as someone spilled the beans. It's kind of stupid tho as people were using it for ages, also it has terribly long halflife and tracebility so it will dissapear from sports soon

Perhaps now Mr Putin ,... the anti space president ,will put an end of this bullshitand non sense of wasting so much money of Russia GDP in sports and put the damnmoney in where it really matters for the nation economy and business. I fully welcome a total ban of Russian sports in the world at least for a decade. if that is what it take for the Space Hater Putin ,to stop wasting money in useless sport events and take that money instead better in creating an industrial revolutionand returning Russia to the space race to the level of soviets union best times.. The millions Putin waste financing salaries of sports atletes could be better usedto finance engineering and scientist projects.

If Putin likes to compete in races, there is plenty of races to do space ,and it will be even cheaper ,in comparison to the ridiculous spending that Russia use on hosting world events ,like Sochi and fifa 2018 .

With all this shit happening around Russian athletes and Olympic games, I would, if I would be in the Russian government, impose boycott of Olympic games in Rio and would not allow any sportsman to go there. But on the other hand I would send FSB to collect all data regarding IOC, IAAF and other international sport organizations about corruptions, political pressures, etc, specially regarding all this shit against Russia and than wait few years that US and EU and NATO collapse and lost their power. Than will come out with all collected data and enforce them to nullify Olympic games in Rio and to pay big compensations in trillions of Rubles to Russian athletes for all this shit (US $ will be than worthless paper). If they will go bankrupt, so be it. This is the only way to teach them a lesson.

I am not interested in sports in general and hardly know about these themes, but it is clear that there is a persecution against Russia. This shows the extreme decadence of the West, how deeply ideologized and even totalitarian it has become, because now they have to punish and persecute Russia in all spheres. In the time of the Cold War there was a sense of "fair play" not only in sports, but also in the space race. Now all dirty tricks and manouevres are acceptable in the eyes of the Western public in order to "teach Russia a lesson".

I second the idea of boycotting these games. NATO cannot be allowed to impose any standards on the planet. WADA didn't evenjustify on a scientific basis its ban on Meldonium. It just proclaimed it to be a banned substance and did not give any athlete takingit a reasonable six month transition period. I am not talking about participation at sports events, I am talking about being found"guilty" of having it in their system.

The same with all of this doping hysteria. It is based on the word of some clown official who clearly was paid off by NATO and ranoff to live in his promised land the USA. It's his word against every athlete and every test done on them even by third parties.Yet his word is treated as if God himself proclaimed that all Russian athletes dope.

kvs wrote:I second the idea of boycotting these games. NATO cannot be allowed to impose any standards on the planet. WADA didn't evenjustify on a scientific basis its ban on Meldonium. It just proclaimed it to be a banned substance and did not give any athlete takingit a reasonable six month transition period. I am not talking about participation at sports events, I am talking about being found"guilty" of having it in their system.

The same with all of this doping hysteria. It is based on the word of some clown official who clearly was paid off by NATO and ranoff to live in his promised land the USA. It's his word against every athlete and every test done on them even by third parties.Yet his word is treated as if God himself proclaimed that all Russian athletes dope.

Correct. and all this just confirms once more what i have been saying again and again but many did not believe me. Is a mistake that Russia put all its eggs in Sports . Now Russia is banned from Olympics and its athletes discredited not only present but SOchi olympics too ,and Future Sports. Any WADA or western sports organization will be bribed to discredit Russia from sports internationally. and ban it. so is a policy. So Russia spending so much money in sports , ie.. $52 billions Sochi +10$ billions of FIFA 2018 , + security + volunteersis a LOT of money there.. over spending. Russia also will face A HUGE security problemin FIFA 2018.. you only need to see the fighting in FRANCE and that was only an european widesports. Russia will need to use its entire Armed forces near a million of police to keep British , Baltics ,Polish ,Ukrainians,Romanians, Turks and Americans fans from fighting Russian fans. What a huge waste of Money it will be.. specially when Russia does not have a solid football team. US government will have a field day , promoting unrest and fights in 11 cities in Russia.and this is not mentioning the threat of terrorism. it will be a real Nightmare for Russia to hostany Olympics again ,with the political climate Russia face today.

Project Canada wrote:Antidoping Officials Are Expected to Ask That Russia Be Barred From Rio Olympics

If this goes through, Russia will need to have a powerful response, this move crosses too many lines, USA campaign to smear Russia is getting more dirtier

These NATO puppet clowns are snookering themselves. It looks better for Russia if it is banned than if it boycotts. So let themdo this, then Russia should start organizing real independent organizations and not corrupt NATO puppet outfits.

Asymetrical muscular development is a common problem with steroid use. Her right arm is twice the diameter of the left. That body development is not normal for a tennis player, no matter how much training she does. Tennis just continues to sweep obvious steroid abuse in their sport under the rug. Meanwhile decimating the records so the younger generations to come will never measure up. They says it's because serena is a fierce competitor, that's why she's built like an NFL linebacker. No other women in that sport are fierce competitors that's why most of them look like "women". Face it, she will never be called out because she's black, and we all know it's racist to say any truths about blacks.

Testing in professional sports is a joke.The chemestry is always two years ahead of the current tests. Lance Armstrong evaded state of the art tesing for decades along with most everyone else in cyclying.Tennis will have its day of reckoning just like professional baseball and cycling. The elite in many profesional sports have a good chemist in their corner. Martina admitted her steriod abuse to obtain 18 majors. Rules had not caught up to the science in her era. Beautiful Flo Joe did not "look' like she was abusing either and it ended up killing her.

If you know anything about how steroids work, you wouldn't assume that anybody would be juicing right before or during a slam. They do a steroid cycle 3-4 months in advance to give it enough time to achieve the desired effects and to be able to flush them out of the body before testing. Other than the slams, there are no tournaments with rigorous doping control; everybody gets tested 3 times or something like that during the year. The time windows of some of those mandatory tests may even be announced well in advance. So, if you're juicing, you take some time off to avoid possible detection. Therefore, look for those players who suffer inexplicable "injuries" or "illnesses" a few months before a big event and then come back super fit, strong, and able to run after each ball like the Energizer Bunny.

I've always assumed that the problem is far more prevalent on the WTA tour where those young girls have all started playing the ball bashing game requiring a lot of strength and fitness very early on, in their teenage years. Also, the WTA tour has been plagued by lack of sponsorship money and lower viewership in the last few years, so they're probably far more likely to turn a blind eye to doping than ATP.